Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] searching [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
2 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
3 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
4 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
5 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
6 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
7 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |